This is a extremely rare Kids show from the early 50's called "The Magic Clown", with Bonomo Candy being plugged 1,446,234 times.

Most certainly not "Quality TV", But certainly better than "Jerry Springer".


This movie is part of the collection: Classic TV

Production Company: NBC Television Network
Audio/Visual: Sound, Black and White
Keywords: Classic TV; 50's TV; 1950's TV; Fifties TV; 50's Television; 1950's Television; Fifties Television; Infomercial

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Robin_1990 - - August 10, 2011
Subject: Well, technically...
..."The show was created by Tico Bonomo, grandson of the founder of the Bonomo Turkish Taffy company, specifically as a vehicle to sell candy"

Admittedly the sponsors of shows like "Your Hit Parade" (which is certainly not an infomercial) owned the shows and in some cases created them, but this case seems a bit different somehow.

Reviewer: Iowatvman - - August 10, 2011
Subject: This is not an infomercial
I don't know where the uploader learned about television, but this is *not* an infomercial. Television programs in the 1950's were generally produced by or for one sponsor and their ad agency. Commercials were often integrated into the program, as in this case, and the sponsor's logo was often featured on the set. But this was *not* an infomercial, which does nothing but talk about the sponsor's product with no entertainment.

Please learn something about the industry before making comments like that.

As entertainment, this is pretty bad, so two stars.

Reviewer: bestpbx - - December 4, 2008
Subject: Creepy the Clown
I hate clowns... this guy looks like he would be a serial killer.

Br-r-r-r-r-r!!!!!!

Reviewer: Meatpies - - October 19, 2008
Subject: Who was the sponsor?
Gosh... if they could have only said it one more time...